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Publisher and editor with a passion for plain language and a commitment to clear, honest work every week.
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Experienced editor seeking new opportunities with small teams and independent publishers.
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Good writing starts long before the first sentence. Spend an hour with your notes, decide what the reader should walk away with, then cut everything that does not serve that. The draft that remains is shorter, clearer and far easier to finish on a busy afternoon, and readers can feel the difference every single time they open the page.
Before you start typing, make sure you know what you want to say. I will often take a walk, think it over, and only then open a blank page and start to write the first lines.
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I can hear the objections already. But I have to write for a company that sells cardboard boxes. Fine, then be the best voice in that field.
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You also need to accept that not every post is going to get your motor running. Some will feel like chores. Write them anyway, keep them short, and save your best energy for the pieces that matter most to the people reading them.
This does not mean that all writers are insincere. On the contrary, many writers have a natural curiosity about the world and a wish to explain it, and that curiosity is exactly what makes a post worth reading to the very end of the page.
Before you start typing, make sure you know what you want to say. I will often take a walk, think it over, and only then open a blank page and start to write the first lines.
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